Study suggests cancer, diabetes diagnoses delayed among kids during pandemic – CTV
Jan. 18, 2024
While there was no significant increase in preventable illnesses and deaths in kids during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study suggests there were delays in diagnoses of cancer and diabetes.
The cross-sectional study was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal(opens in a new tab) on Tuesday.
The researchers, who are affiliated with Toronto’s Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, examined data on emergency room (ER) visits, hospital admissions and deaths, ranging from newborns to 17 year olds in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province.
They compared the observed rates during the first two-and-a-half years of the pandemic — March 2020 to August 2022 — to predicted rates based on the three years before the pandemic — January 2017 to February 2020.
